Shared Governance for Sustainable Working Landscapes

Shared Governance for Sustainable Working Landscapes
Author: Timothy M. Gieseke
Publisher: CRC Press
Total Pages: 284
Release: 2016-08-05
Genre: Nature
ISBN: 1498718027

Sustaining our agricultural landscapes is no longer just a technical, scientific or even political problem, but it has evolved into a socially complex, so-called wicked problem of conflicting social governance and economics. This creates an extreme economic obstacle where the value of ecosystem services remains low and diffuse and the transactions costs remain high and multiple.Using Uber-like business platform technology and a shared governance model, a symbiotic demand for environmental benefits is created. Enabling multi-sector transactions for environmental benefits, this platform innovation would remedy the "tragedy of the commons"; the economic nemesis to achieving landscape sustainability. In a nutshell, to sustain our agricultural landscapes a transdisciplinary approach supported by a shared governance model housed within a multi-sided platform in needed. This book introduces an assessment framework identifying governance actors, styles and ratios for socio-ecological systems. The assessment uses a new governance compass to identify the types of actors completing which tasks and identifies the styles of governance used to complete the tasks. It is aimed to anyone involved in sustainability science, agricultural policy planning, or integrated landscape design.

Code of Federal Regulations

Code of Federal Regulations
Author: United States. Department of Agriculture
Publisher:
Total Pages: 648
Release: 2010
Genre: Agricultural laws and legislation
ISBN:

Special edition of the Federal register, containing a codification of documents of general applicability and future effect as of ... with ancillaries.